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Did you know that Foreign Language Anxiety is an actual phenomenon? There are articles all over the internet about it. Watch our video to find out the six biggest anxieties we’ve had as we learned German.

It’s been one year since we moved to Germany, and our German skills have improved so much. We invited one of our sons to show off his talent for learning German.

Ever since I arrived in Germany, I’ve had challenges with my resident permit, and then there were problems with my driver’s license and health insurance. It’s been one hurdle after another, but then I got some good news.

We missed many things about Germany while we were visiting family and friends in the USA for the holidays.

Kevin was excited to GEEK out in this video about German engineering and math education!

We’ve learned a lot about how Germans celebrate Christmas. We’ve started a few new traditions, but have also kept many of our American traditions.

We’ve bought a few new traditional and truly authentic German Christmas decorations this month to really make us feel at home here in Germany as Americans.

It’s our first Christmas in Germany! We’re excited to blend our old, American holiday traditions with new, German holiday traditions. Watch as we trim the tree and get ready for Christmas.

We were very sad when all of the German Christmas markets in our area got canceled this year! But we refused to let that get us down, so we decided to bring the drinks and food of the German Christmas markets to us instead!

eing new to Germany, there are MANY new German Christmas sweets and foods we haven’t tried yet! Three of our kids were more than happy to help us taste-test goodies we found at the store.